Tales of Suspense, #28
Published: April 1962
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Issue Contents:
Back from the Dead! / The Dummy's Secret! / The Black Planet! / The Coming of Titan!
Characters
- Captain of the Stone Men
- Harry Dawes
- Titan
- Herman
- Bruno Brugg
Credits
- Script: Stan Lee (uncertain)
- Pencils: Jack Kirby
- Inks: Steve Ditko
- Colors: Stan Goldberg
- Letters: Artie Simek
Titan, the Amphibian from Atlantis!
"This is our Earth as it might look to distant eyes..."
Storyline
John Cartwright, an auto executive, pretends to betray the human race to the invaders from Atlantis.
Characters
- John Cartwright
- Titan
Credits
- Script: Stan Lee (uncertain)
- Script: Larry Lieber (uncertain)
- Pencils: Jack Kirby
- Inks: Russ Heath
- Colors: Stan Goldberg
- Letters: Ray Holloway (uncertain)
Story Notes
Script and synopsis added by Bob Bailey, 2005-08-12 (Per Sandell ed.)
Special Sale
"Normally, Marvin Kale never went shopping for his wife."
Storyline
When a husband goes shopping he finds a new cleaning fluid that makes anything better than new, even him.
Characters
- Marvin Kale
- Paula Kale
Credits
- Pencils: Joe Maneely
- Inks: Joe Maneely
Story Notes
Text story with illustration.
Back from the Dead!
"In South America, as elsewhere, running feet can mean many things!"
Storyline
A fugitive hides on Easter Island and finds a scroll that awakens the stone heads. They turn out to be aliens and take him with them as a zoo specimen.
Characters
- Harry Dawes
- Captain of the Stone Men
Credits
- Script: Stan Lee (uncertain)
- Script: Larry Lieber (uncertain)
- Pencils: Jack Kirby
- Inks: Dick Ayers
- Colors: Stan Goldberg
- Letters: Ray Holloway (uncertain)
Story Notes
The last page includes an advertisement for Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) by Lee and Kirby. Script and synopsis added by Bob Bailey, 2005-08-12 (Per Sandell ed.)
The Dummy
"He called himself the Great Gregory, and he claimed to be..."
Storyline
Ventriloquist the Great Gregory and his wooden puppet Herman are both wooden aliens from Uranus!
Characters
- The Great Gregory
- Herman
Credits
- Script: Stan Lee (uncertain)
- Script: Larry Lieber (uncertain)
- Pencils: Paul Reinman
- Inks: Joe Sinnott
- Colors: Stan Goldberg
- Letters: Artie Simek
Story Notes
Script and synopsis added by Bob Bailey, 2005-08-12 (Per Sandell ed.)
The Secret of the Black Planet
"This is a prison asteroid, floating in lonely space, sometime in..."
Storyline
A man escapes from a prison planet only to mistake a native creature on another world for a rocket ship and ends up about to be devoured.
Characters
- Bruno Brugg
Credits
- Script: Stan Lee
- Colors: Stan Goldberg
- Letters: Artie Simek
- Pencils: Steve Ditko
- Inks: Steve Ditko
Story Notes
The last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Ditko. Script added by Bob Bailey, 2005-08-12 (Per Sandell ed.) In the foreword to the Marvel Masterworks reprint, Arthur Adams describes the last panel of this story as being pornographic.